beetle {AICcmodavg}R Documentation

Flour beetle data.

Description

This data set illustrates the acute mortality of flour beetles (Tribolium confusum) following 5 hour exposure to carbon disulfide gas.

Usage

data(beetle)

Format

A data frame with 8 rows and 4 variables.

Dose
dose of carbon disulfide in mg/L
Number_tested
number of beetles exposed to given dose of carbon disulfide
Number_killed
Number of beetles dead after 5 hour exposure to given dose of carbon disulfide
Mortality_rate
proportion of total beetles found dead after 5 hour exposure

Details

Burnham and Anderson (2002, p. 195) use this data set originally from Young and Young (1998) to show model selection for binomial models with different link functions (logit, probit, cloglog).

Source

Burnham, K. P., Anderson, D. R. (2002) Model Selection and Multimodel Inference: a practical information-theoretic approach. Second edition. Springer: New York.

Young, L. J., Young, J. H. (1998) Statistical Ecology. Kluwer Academic Publishers: London.

Examples

data(beetle)
## maybe str(beetle) ; plot(beetle) ...

[Package AICcmodavg version 1.05 Index]